From the daily archives: Thursday, October 9, 2008

Root Shell – The Holy Grail

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The “Holy Grail” of any attack is the creation of a root shell. On UNIX/Linux, the “root” user is a superuser account that has the capability of running any process on the machine. An exploit will attempt to gain root access to a system by obtaining a root shell prompt from which any command [...]

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No-Tech Hacking

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Observation is one of the most important traits of a hacker. Johnny Long outlined at Defcon 15 last year in Las Vegas just how much observation and/or social engineering can go when gathering information.

His most recent book takes a look at how to defeat every conceivable high-tech security system by [...]

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